The preaching was free but the challenges were not due to blasphemy laws, thus more free speech would allow challenges, which we know reduces the problem of bad

The preaching was free but the challenges were not due to blasphemy laws, thus more free speech would allow challenges, which we know reduces the problem of bad speech. > It tells a lot that I never heard historians seriously discussing it in this context. If you got the first part wrong then the second is only telling in the other direction.